Israel may face a wrenching choice between its democracy and Jewishness. And that’s normal.
By Lee Smith|
Tablet magazine - November 19, 2014
Maybe all of Europe will soon follow the Swedes in recognizing
a Palestinian state. Last week the E.U.’s new foreign affairs chief
Federica Mogherini expressed Europe’s general impatience and called for
the prompt creation of a Palestinian state. The world, she said,
“cannot afford” another war in Gaza. And to make good on her word, the
E.U. is now threatening to sanction Israel if it continues to avoid taking the steps toward a two-state solution.
It’s worth noting that the E.U.’s threats to sanction Israel come on
the eve of a likely nuclear deal with Iran that will relieve sanctions
on the Islamic Republic. For Iran, sanctions relief will entail a
virtual gold rush with European businesses investing billions in
Tehran’s energy and auto sectors. In other words, the way Europe sees
it, Israel’s partial military occupation of 2.2 million Palestinian
inhabitants of the West Bank is far more dangerous to world peace than
the rise of a nuclear-armed pariah state that wages terrorist operations
on every continent in the world except Antarctica.
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